Right outside the back door of the garage on a concrete slab is our freezer. The concrete slab ends at the side of the trailer forming a little enclosed area with no roof with three sides where we had the upright freezer, garden tools and odds and ends.

This one nite it was a lovely cool moonlit night. The full moon was brightly shining and a perfect night to be outside. I was going to enjoy the walk around sprinkling the cider vinegar and sea salt mixture. I took a few steps outside the back door of the garage holding my bowl of cider vinegar and sea salt and stopped to enjoy the night.

I was just past the freezer and could see into the enclosed area which was filled with moonlight. Casually looking into the enclose I saw a very tall and thin shadow being move away from the back of the enclosure walking towards me with a menacing attitude. He took it for granted that he was terrifying and humans are terrified by him. Wrong! The shadow being walked right up to me until he was about a foot and a half from me. He was looking down at me so sure I was frozen in terror and would run away in terror any second.

I stood there looking up at him wonderingly. I looked down at my bowl. I looked back up at him. Curious as to what would happen if I sprinkled him with the mix I put my fingers in the bowl as I stood looking up at him. He was so sure of his ability to scare me. Just watching curiously what would happen I flicked the mix on him.

The gloating look of a big, bad, terrorizing monster left immediately. It was quickly replaced by a very shocked and frightened expression. He jumped straight up with his arms waving frantically and turned around in mid air and hit the ground running back into the enclosure. I just stood there for a moment taking in what had happened. Then I was the one gloating and completely gleeful. To add insult to injury I peed where he had been standing marking my territory. He had been saying the place was his and I said nope, taint, tis mine.

After that the shadow beings were not much of a problem. I wish I could have listened to their conversation. I would have loved to hear how the shadow being explained being scared by a human to the other shadow beings. He was probably banished for making them all look like the fakers they are.

I finished off my sprinkling the cider vinegar and sea salt mixture around the outside of the house and garage laughing all the way. I laughed the rest of the night. It must have been very humiliating for the shadow being to not only be scared out of his wits but to be laughed at.

That night proved two things to me. The entities that act big, bad and powerful are not really as bad as the show they put on. Their all powerful attitude is just a front. They are not even close to being as powerful as they pretend to be. They are used to being perceived as dangerous and terrifying. They ‘believe’ they are capable of manipulating people by scare tactics. A spook version of shock and awe.

Simple things can stop them cold. Cider vinegar mixed with sea salt is as simple as it can get and it sent the shadow being running away as fast as he could move.

None of them bother me anymore. It took years but I never backed down. In fact they go out of their way to avoid me.

If a timid person like me can make them back down then anyone can.